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Re: Have you ever cheated download stats on ticalc.org?
nyall Account Info
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Back in the day I would update something (yapt) to see its downloads skyrocket. But I've never downloaded my own programs.

-Samuel

Reply to this comment    25 May 2004, 08:46 GMT

Re: Re: Have you ever cheated download stats on ticalc.org?
mirra  Account Info
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I would do the same thing, though it would only be because the program needed to be updated. ;)

Reply to this comment    25 May 2004, 12:32 GMT


Re: Re: Have you ever cheated download stats on ticalc.org?
Ivan Papusha  Account Info
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Yes. I have gone out of my way many times to refrain from downloading my own programs - who would want to download mine anyway, they all stink. Thus, I have never downloaded my own programs.

Reply to this comment    25 May 2004, 18:39 GMT

Re: Have you ever cheated download stats on ticalc.org?
Sam3.14 Account Info
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I suppose this was prompted by the "God of Jur" incident. How did that happen, anyway?

Reply to this comment    25 May 2004, 11:45 GMT

Re: Re: Have you ever cheated download stats on ticalc.org?
Tzazak Account Info

I'm not sure, but I saw that at the top with another level set from the same guy near the top too. Sure enough, a few days later there was a discussion about that in the forums...
I don't think it matters that much though, especially if the program has a screenshot. You can see for yourself how good/bad the program is. It's not worth cheating just to get on the tops of the list. You probably get caught anyway. (Hmmm...God of Jur)

Reply to this comment    25 May 2004, 16:52 GMT

Re: Re: Have you ever cheated download stats on ticalc.org?
CajunLuke Account Info

I second. How did that happen?

Reply to this comment    25 May 2004, 20:34 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Have you ever cheated download stats on ticalc.org?
Sam3.14 Account Info
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No one could have downloaded it that many times. The author must haved hacked into the server somehow.

Reply to this comment    25 May 2004, 23:00 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Have you ever cheated download stats on ticalc.org?
Morgan Davies  Account Info
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There are ways to cheat like how he did, but I won't be spreading them around. And as far as hacking into the server...LOL

Reply to this comment    26 May 2004, 05:11 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Have you ever cheated download stats on ticalc.org?
Joey Gannon  Account Info
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Ah, yes. The idea of someone getting past Henrik's paranoid security settings is certainly a ridiculous idea. :-)

Reply to this comment    26 May 2004, 06:30 GMT

Re: Re: Have you ever cheated download stats on ticalc.org?
Andy Kukwa  Account Info

It was a Mario levelset. It got about 1000 downloads the first day. I was very suspicious, and a bit jealous. But not anymore.

Reply to this comment    25 May 2004, 23:13 GMT


Re: Re: Have you ever cheated download stats on ticalc.org?
Joey Gannon  Account Info
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It wasn't any particular incident... it's happened about 14879489 times that someone's file has illegitimately found its way to the top of the downloads list. We catch it every time, and then we have to fix it, so it's just a waste of time for everyone.

Reply to this comment    26 May 2004, 06:28 GMT

Re: Have you ever cheated download stats on ticalc.org?
Memwaster  Account Info

I remember when I downloaded every 83+ an 89 program of TIcalc.org. Now, I've lost the disk, so I just download the ones I want again...

Reply to this comment    25 May 2004, 13:08 GMT


Re: Re: Have you ever cheated download stats on ticalc.org?
mirra  Account Info
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Yeah, I have probably tried every program on ticalc! (for my calcs of course) Maybe that is why I can write reviews for most of the programs. ;)

Reply to this comment    25 May 2004, 13:11 GMT

Re: Have you ever cheated download stats on ticalc.org?
tifreak8x  Account Info
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Not really cheating, but My comp had issues and I 'Fixed' them. :) All of my TI-Data was lost, so I came here and downloaded all my games again so I could continue to my work...

Reply to this comment    25 May 2004, 13:14 GMT

Re: Have you ever cheated download stats on ticalc.org?
PaulvZon  Account Info

No I didn't, I'm basically too lame for such things -_-

Reply to this comment    25 May 2004, 14:47 GMT

Re: Have you ever cheated download stats on ticalc.org?
Timm Bogner  Account Info

Whatever happened to the allfiles.zip file in every directory. That was a nice feature, along with the ftp download ability.

-TB

Reply to this comment    25 May 2004, 16:11 GMT

Re: Have you ever cheated download stats on ticalc.org?
Chivo  Account Info

No

Reply to this comment    25 May 2004, 18:19 GMT


Re: Re: Have you ever cheated download stats on ticalc.org?
nicklaszlo Account Info
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I just felt the urge to reply to a stupid post.

Now I want to complain that none of my files have download statistics, because they are all NoteFolio appvars. Now I can't make my english teacher angry by telling her how many people no longer need to make Great Expectations vocabulary cards by hand.

Reply to this comment    25 May 2004, 22:31 GMT

Re: Have you ever cheated download stats on ticalc.org?
no_one_2000_  Account Info
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Heh, no. Well... I may have downloaded one of my programs a couple times, I think, but I was downloading it to different computers in my mom's computer lab. So, from what I was doing (and the purpose for it), I don't really think it was cheating. There were only a few computers in the lab anyway, so it didn't matter. LOL Besides, this was like, two years or so, ago.

Reply to this comment    25 May 2004, 20:29 GMT

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anykey Account Info
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I wonder what would happen if I said I payed people $.50 an hour to download my programs...
But that would be dumb due to the fact that I haven't uploaded any. :^)

Reply to this comment    26 May 2004, 00:57 GMT


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KermMartian Account Info
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It occured to me that if I have a penny (US) for every time someone has downloaded a program from me, I could buy myself a sw337 computer ($2768) :-D

Reply to this comment    27 May 2004, 15:14 GMT

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CajunLuke Account Info

Lucky $&^$&%!!! I only have US$17.38. Not even enough for a decent scientific!!

Reply to this comment    27 May 2004, 19:02 GMT


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CajunLuke Account Info

But that will change soon... I am uploading the TI Calculator Knower, a Java applet with /all/ the info on /every/ TI graphing calculator. It even has Easter Eggs.

Reply to this comment    27 May 2004, 19:04 GMT

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Jake Griffin  Account Info
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Unfortunately, 99% of those pennies would be from you...j/k...I was actually thinking about something similar to that a while back...if all the users had accounts that got charged one cent per downloaded program and the authors acount was credited with that penny...that would be a lot of fun. Imagine: You only have to pay a PENNY tto download a program, but could earn a dollar a week off even simple programs...the ones that get 100 dl's a week...Let me tell you, if this was how TICalc was in the beginning, Patrick Davidson would be rich...

Reply to this comment    27 May 2004, 19:04 GMT


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CajunLuke Account Info

But there would be literally millions of cheap quadratic formula programs, then!! There would have to be a (example) ticalc.org/83plus/basic/math/quadratic/ directory!

Reply to this comment    27 May 2004, 19:07 GMT


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Justin McKinley Account Info

yea, but nobody would download yours if there were 10000 others... plus they could just put a $1 upload fee, if your program didn't absolutly suck, it would be payed back in a week (or 2 or 3 if it was basic and reasonably good)

Reply to this comment    28 May 2004, 02:13 GMT


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Lewk Of Serthic Account Info

But what if those people demanded refunds?

Reply to this comment    28 May 2004, 02:16 GMT


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Tzazak Account Info

Just write on the site, NO REFUNDS! I'd only have like 4 bucks or something...

Reply to this comment    28 May 2004, 15:35 GMT

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